"Richard Harrison" wrote in message
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Caveat Lector wrote:
"A WWII B-24 bomber (Lady Be Good) ran out of fuel because they were not
sure of the DF readings."

Too bad they ran out of gas and drash landed in the Libyan desert. The
B-24 must have been covered with sand for most of the time because there
was still most of it intact to be found.

On April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good radioed for a directional reading
from the high frequency direction finding station at Bernina as the
earth was covered with clouds and there were strong winds causing
navigational errors. They needed a position fix.

I had breakfast this morning with a WW-2 B-24 pilot who flew in the same
area. He said that requests for position fixes were often answered by
Germans pretending to be the direction finding facility, and they would
intentionally lead the questioners astray.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Interesting -- code operators could tell one operator from another just by
their style or fist.
Wonder if CW was used for the request and reply ???

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